And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that] all that hear will laugh with me.
Ver. 6. God hath made me to laugh.] "A wise son maketh a glad father". Pro 10:1 Monstri autem simil est, quando pro risu sunt fletus, sunt flagellum. And yet this is many a good man's case. How many parents are put to wish Moses' wish, Num 11:15 "Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, kill me, that I behold not my misery!" Had he lived to see what ways his grandchild Jonathan took, what a grief would it have been unto him! Jdg 18:30 "Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh," &c. In the best Hebrew copies, Nun is suspended in that name: whereupon the Hebrews descant, that this Gershom was the son of Moses; but because he and his posterity walked not in the ways of Moses, but rather of Manasses, 2Ki 21:1-9 and did his works: therefore the penman of this book would not so far disgrace Moses, as to make him his son, as indeed he was, Exodus 2:1,2 ; Exodus 2:10 1Ch 23:14-15 but rather of Manasses, whom he imitated and resembled. a How much better and happier had it been for them both if they had expressed their father's manners, as Constantine's sons did: of whom it is said, that they had put on whole Constantine, and in all good things did exactly resemble him. b
a Ac proinde studio inseruisse literam Nun, suspensam tamen; in signum, eam adesse vel abesse posse, ut sit et filius משׁה vel מבשׁה , istius prosapia, huius imitatione. - Buxtorf. Tiber.
b δλον ενεδυσαντο τον Kονσταντινον, εμπρεποντες τοις του πατρος καλλωπισμασιν - Euseb.